Each team in the LNH can keep a set amount of player tenure (years of service) from year to year.
The longer a player stays with a fantasy team, the more he will cost. Instead of keeping a set number of players, each team can protect a fixed number of years of service. For example, once the league allows you to hold ten years of service, you could protect ten different players from last year’s draft, five players that you had kept for two years each, one player that you loved and held for ten years, or any combination, such as a player that you held for five years, another player with three years of tenure, and two players you drafted the year before.
The LNH will proceed forward with regards to tenure as follows:
2018/19 – Initial draft
2019/20 – Each team can keep 3 years of tenure.
2020/21 – Each team can keep 5 years of tenure.
2021/22 – Each team can keep 7 years of tenure.
2022/23 – Each team can keep 9 years of tenure.
2023/24 – Each team can keep 10 years of tenure.
After the 2023/24 season, the league will stay as a 10-year tenure league.
The LNH is a salary cap draft league. Each team will receive $200 to draft with each season. The amount will stay at $200 regardless of how many players you keep from year to year to get to your max years of tenure allowed.
A player’s tenure (years of service) stays with him when he is involved in a trade between fantasy managers.
When a player is dropped from his current team and picked up on waivers, his tenure stays with him.